Radcliffe Alumnae, Board of Trustees Elect Six Members

The Radcliffe Alumnae Association and the Radcliffe College Board of Trustees have elected six new Radcliffe trustees.

The new trustees are Jane Carpenter Bradley '49, a director of Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston; Elizabeth R. Heffernan '75, a student at Georgetown University Law Center; Ruth B. Helman '43, a former president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association; Ellen LaFollette '54, an editor and teacher of American Literature; Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, associate dean of admissions and financial aid; and Alfred R. Stern, a consultant to Warner Communications.

The Trustees of Radcliffe College control the College's finances, but under an agreement last altered in 1977, Radcliffe pays the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences each year for the education of its students.

"I never finished college because I went into the army," Stern said yesterday. "However, I'm interested in the women's side of coordinate education, where the two institutions, though coordinate, maintain their separate identities--I think it's a very good idea," he added. Stern's daughter is a member of the Class of '80.

"My class was the last that wasn't coed," Hellman said yesterday. "I am, as most trustees, I'm sure, concerned with the continuing education of women," she said.

There are now 36 Radcliffe trustees. Six are chosen by a vote of Radcliffe alumnae every four years, and the rest are chosen by the previous board. There is no set number of trustees.

"As in choosing the student body, we look for diversity in our trustees," Louise E. Donovan secretary of Radcliffe College, said yesterday.